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" As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature. "

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" I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry. "

" I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. "

" There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA. "

" One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents. "

" I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was. "

" It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. "

" Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions. "

" People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion. "

" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

" I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. "

" Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo. "

" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "

" A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. "

" Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function. "

" There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind. "

" Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing. "

" We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. "

" The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. "

" The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. "

" Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself. "

" Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel. "

" Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another. "

" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "

" Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage. "

" Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product. "

" We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. "

" If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code. "

" My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career. "